Koert, Kristel, Stefan, Bkay and Anthony met at the Josto youth house to prospect a possible location for the hackerspace.

The Josto youth house is a youth-operated place with usual bar, meeting rooms, kitchen, rooms for Chiro, ... (Koert is in the youth house's board)

The basement is available for activities, and the people are excited about having a hackerspace as it fits in their mission statement (organizing events, etc)

The basement (also referred to as "De Bunker") consists of ...

two vaulted rooms (not very big, about 20-30 square meters?)

a bar, which is also used by a band for their rehearsals on Saturday

a hallway

a few smaller rooms (looks like a DJ pit)

The basement has all kinds of recently renovated facilities (electricity, lighting, heating) but is not used by the youth house

In cooperation with the youth house, the basement may be made available to a hacker club, for free, with a few reasonable requests

If we bring internet to the basement, the youth house also wants its share of the uplink (Wireless Antwerpen is a feasible way to bring internet into the building)

We're not supposed to bring our own drinks, but buy them from the youth house's bar (==cheap). We can use the basement's bar for distributing drinks. If we want to expand the selection of drinks (e.g. include Club Mate or Jolt Cola) we can bring it ourselves

If we're planning activities (like a workshop), the youth house wants to be mentioned as a co-organizer

We're not supposed to change anything structurally unless it is in cooperation with the building's owner

It is agreed to use this space as a preliminary space for future meetings every Wednesday (since the youth house is open on Wednesdays). If the hackerspace attracts too many people, we might move to a bigger space later on.

In the next few weeks, we plan to

Work on defining the hackerspace, working toward an official organization

Clean up the basement for its initial use as a hackerspace

Discuss practical details and some sort of formal agreement with the youth house's organization